Why women got wired

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Natasha Walter at the offices of Women for Refugee WomenBethany Clarke The Times

Natasha Walter

Last updated at 12:01AM, November 8 2012

Women have been taking over the internet - here author Natasha Walter writes about the rise of the female blogger

I can date my unease with the way the internet was changing our lives to the
day six years ago when I published a short article saying I thought women
should support female film directors by going to see their movies.

I thought this was a pretty inoffensive example of feminist solidarity. I was
immediately informed that it was a “dumb idea” and I was a “sermonising,
viciously intolerant middle-class prig” for putting it forward, and the main
reason women didn’t direct more films was that their tits got in the way of
the camera.